Just took a look at my Bird App. There's a few hundred scooters deployed.
Typical Ottawa bureaucracy, the map is so insanely granular with rules that it's going to be super frustrating to be riding along and have the bird shut down unexpectedly. Most Cities have maybe two or three 'zones' for no-go, or at least automatic speed restrictions in 'go slow' zones where pedestrian density requires more caution. Bird is great for restricting speeds to just above walking in these zones, and it actually is a welcome restriction, fostering better control of the scoots.
In Ottawa you've got like three dozen zones in the downtown, small strips, single blocks, and etc. where its a no-go (bird shuts off) or no-park (can't disengage with Bird), or both. The 'slow' zones are restricted to very very small areas, single intersections, etc. in places that kind of make sense.
I appreciate, (perhaps, but not really) that Birds aren't allowed on NCC Pathways, and so the map was updated with these super granular little access strips at the cross-canal bridges. Guaranteed my GPS will read outside of these areas while traversing a bridge, and the bird will shut down, causing lots of swearing... Although the canal pathway, river pathway, sparks street (go slow zone is best) is probably the BEST place to use one of these things.
I can get behind perhaps Sparks, where technically riding a bike is not allowed. But all bike paths, NCC or no, should be fair game. I can perhaps understand 'no parking' in zones where Bird delivery/pickup vehicles can't access, like the far reaches of the river pathway. But if I can bike on a pathway and kill a pedestrian, surely to god I can scoot on a pathway and also kill people.
Its like an old grandpa made these rules.
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Originally Posted by rocketphish
[B]First shared e-scooters roll out in Ottawa
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